Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-4631 - Improper Restriction of Operations Within the Bounds of A Memory Buffer vulnerability in Huawei products

047910
CVSS 7.8 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
low complexity
huawei
CWE-119
nessus
exploit available

Summary

Huawei AR 150, 200, 1200, 2200, and 3200 routers, when SNMPv3 is enabled, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device crash) via malformed SNMPv3 requests that leverage unspecified overflow issues.

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Overflow Buffers
    Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
  • Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
  • Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
  • MIME Conversion
    An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.

Exploit-Db

descriptionHuawei SNMPv3 Service - Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities. CVE-2013-4630,CVE-2013-4631. Dos exploit for hardware platform
fileexploits/hardware/dos/25295.txt
idEDB-ID:25295
last seen2016-02-03
modified2013-05-07
platformhardware
port
published2013-05-07
reporterRoberto Paleari
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/25295/
titleHuawei SNMPv3 Service - Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
typedos

Nessus

NASL familyHuawei Local Security Checks
NASL idHUAWEI-SA-20130425-02.NASL
descriptionThe remote host is a Huawei device running a firmware version that is affected by a remote command execution vulnerability due to a flaw in the SNMPv3 component. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending malformed SNMPv3 messages to execute arbitrary commands.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id77334
published2014-08-22
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77334
titleHuawei AR Router Remote Command Execution (HWNSIRT-2013-0427)
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(77334);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/07/12 19:01:15");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2013-4631");
  script_bugtraq_id(59628);
  script_xref(name:"EDB-ID", value:"25295");

  script_name(english:"Huawei AR Router Remote Command Execution (HWNSIRT-2013-0427)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks the firmware version.");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote host is affected by a remote command execution
vulnerability.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote host is a Huawei device running a firmware version that is
affected by a remote command execution vulnerability due to a flaw in
the SNMPv3 component. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can
exploit this vulnerability by sending malformed SNMPv3 messages to
execute arbitrary commands.");
  # http://www.huawei.com/en/security/psirt/security-bulletins/security-advisories/hw-260601.htm
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?327116a0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Apply the relevant update referenced in the vendor advisory.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2013/04/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2013/04/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/08/22");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:huawei:versatile_routing_platform");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Huawei Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");

  script_dependencies("huawei_vrp_version.nbin");
  script_require_keys("Host/Huawei/VRP/Series", "Host/Huawei/VRP/Version", "Host/Huawei/VRP/Model");

  exit(0);
}

include("huawei_version.inc");

model = get_kb_item_or_exit("Host/Huawei/VRP/Model");
series = get_kb_item_or_exit("Host/Huawei/VRP/Series");
version = get_kb_item_or_exit("Host/Huawei/VRP/Version");

reference = make_nested_list(
  make_array(
    "series", make_list("^AR150$", "^AR200$", "^AR[123]200$"),
    "checks", make_nested_list(
      make_array("vuln", "V200R001", "fix", "V200R003C01SPC300"),
      make_array("vuln", "V200R002", "fix", "V200R003C01SPC300"),
      make_array("vuln", "V200R003", "fix", "V200R003C01SPC300")
      )
    )
  );

huawei_check_and_report(
  model:model,
  series:series,
  version:version,
  reference:reference,
  severity:SECURITY_HOLE
);